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Sunday Roundtable #2Wordless Chorus

Why are you so afraid of silence? Silence is the root of everything. If you spiral into its

void, a hundred voices will thunder messages you long to hear.

-Rumi

People often ask me questions that I cannot very well answer in words, and it makes me

sad to think they are unable to hear the voice of my silence.

-Inayat H. Khan

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is

deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.-Thomas Carlyle

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The

rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

-George Steiner

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words

which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

-Rabindranath Tagore

To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you

need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you

hear the truth and know the solutions.

-Deepak Chopra

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life

has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us

to learn from.-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.

-William Rose Benet

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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become

inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

-Ansel Adams

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

-Aldous Huxley

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is

full of music.

-Marcel Marceau

Silence is more musical than any song.

-Christina Rossetti

You know whats the loudest noise in the world, man? The loudest noise in the world issilence.

-Thelonious Monk

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pause s between the notes ah,

that is where the art resides!

- Arthur Schnabel

I sat there singing her

Songs in the dark.

She said,

I do not understand

The words.

I said,

There are

No words.

-Langston Hughes, Songs

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

-Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.

-Elayne Boosler

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Silence is so accurate.

-Mark Rothko

Most of the conflicts and tensions are due to language. Dont pay so much attention to

the words. In loves country, language doesnt have a place. Love is mute.-Shams Tabrizi

Love is an emotion. Totally silent and inexpressible with words.

-Rumi

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the

friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars,

the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch

souls.-Mother Teresa

Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly

in and out.

-Rumi

There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust

them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.

-Pope John Paul II

All the masters tell us that the Reality of life which our noisy waking consciousness

prevents us from hearing speaks to us mainly in Silence.

Karlfried Graf Durkhelm

In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than

yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then listen!

-Johannes Tauler

"There is a voicethat doesn't use words. Listen!"

-Rumi

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